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The Mystery of the Near-Earth Red Asteroid


Sunday, November 21, 2021 – 15:01 WIB

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For years, scientists still wondered about its origins asteroid Kamo`oalewa.

This celestial body was discovered in 2016, and astronomers know that it has a relatively close orbit to Earth. Apart from that, not much is known.

Recent research, however, has added a clue to the mystery of its emergence: this asteroid could be part of Earth’s moon.

“It doesn’t look like what we think it is, if it’s just a ‘normal’ asteroid,” said Benjamin Sharkey, an astronomer at the University of Arizona and lead author of a new study published on Thursday. jurnal Nature.

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